Imagine being that rich and spending the limited time you have on Earth actively trying to make more money. It’s absolutely mental illness!
I don’t see why extreme wealth isn’t classified as a mental illness like hoarding.
It’s more like narcissism, psychopathy, etc. The constant need to be better than others and worshipped for it.
Nobody gets that much wealth without Psychopathy.
But it doesn’t work like that. Wealth is a status symbol, and status symbols are comparative. Millionaires compare themselves to slightly richer millionaires, and billionaires to slightly richer billionaires. Everyone else is irrelevant to them.
like athletes but different measurements
So I guess showerthoughts is going to be the new platform .ml users will use to complain about capitalism? OP is a brand new account and this was their first and only post.
Yes, I will keep calling this out.
No one should think anything beyond the current hegemony in the shower!
And a platform for you to complain about people who complain about capitalism
When sockpuppet accounts are posting to unrelated communities, no shit I’ll complain. “Rich people are bad” is not a showerthought and you know it, but I guess let’s just spam the platform with this nonsense and keep making new accounts to boost these posts. What’s wrong with that?
We need more valiant soldiers like you fighting these clowns🫡
Yes, I will keep calling this out.
Thank you. Really. I start losing my faith when enough times passes since I last time saw someone event attempt to make sense on Lemmy.
Billionares are the Lemmy circle jerk. I’m tired of the antiwork Lemmy mentality. We have people here who want to make big bucks doing nothing.
It will stay an echo chamber until mods step up and start removing low-effort posts. Also, people are downvoting me in favor of a fake account with one post lmao. That’s how bad it is.
Only if the mods didn’t share the same sentiments. Low-effort political posts in non-political communities have been and always will be a staple in lemmy. You have to understand that it is the same people who left Reddit with these sentiments and similar behaviour that are now here doing the same. Quite an unfortunate reality really
Honestly I shouldn’t be surprised as Lemmy isn’t exactly mainstream media. If you are on Odysee you see people saying how the holocaust was a hoax and that Jews are evil. Here is isn’t quite as bad but you still see the extreme minority.
If it were anything other than money, it would be considered a hoarding problem in need of treatment.
He doesn’t have $270 billion dollars. He has $270 billion dollars worth of assets.
A lot of these guys in the comments lack basic economic understanding. People also make these comments while ignoring other investments these so-called “demons” make. The truth is there is no government in a capitalist society without the efforts of private bourgeois. We should instead advocate for higher taxes rather than whatever impractical and sensationalist solutions we may think of.
I think these guys get addicted to the power. Sure Mark Zuckerberg could spend all his time learning to cook Thai food or surfing or traveling, and we all love to do those things. But very few of us know what it feels like for him to walk into a campus of thousands that he commands and make choices all day long about what to do with them all.
I’m not saying that anyone would do the same in their shoes. But certainly the kind of person who likes to build a giant company will like being at the helm of it too. It’s not about more billions.
at that point it’s not really about the money
everyone needs a purpose. if you take away that purpose, people will start deteriorating.
“journey not the destination”. once you’ve reached something like $50M any more money doesn’t make any real difference in your daily life.
Having a net worth of 270 billion dollars is not synonymous with ‘having 270 billion dollars’
While that is true, at the moment in time they are worth that much, they easily have access to that same amount more or less simply by having better lending rates(after accounting shenanigans are all worked out)than any average person will ever have.
In comparison, our mortgages/loans are the equivalent of using paydayloan rates
I put on a bit of weight a few years back and got up to 99kg. I joked with my partner that if I ate 1kg of cheese, I’d be 1% cheese.
So like, I’m not saying it’s right, but I understand where they’re coming from with the “more, more, more” mentality.
Well generally excess weight is bad and excess money is good
Reddit shower thoughts: if you’re in a bathtub with s toaster, you’re in a toaster^2
Lemmy shower thoughts:
Lemmy likes the anti work circle jerk
I hate to break it to you but hating billionaires will not make you rich.
Fuck being rich. I’m trying to be happy and beneficial to the world around me. Money fucking sucks.
Fair enough. Hating billionaires however, doesn’t help with those goals
It sure as hell doesnt hurt those goals. I dont hate them because they have money. I hate them because they destabilize communities the world over to make evermore.
Well that’s a more specific sentiment than the one that was expressed by OP. If you take issue with the actions that they indulge in to accrue their wealth, then I’d be right there standing beside you. OP seemed to only criticise the wealth which is a neotenous view on the topic.
No, they’re on point. Its deranged and signs of a mental problem collecting that much wealth. Concentrating wealth to the degree of billionaires actively harms the rest of the economy, and the world. They have so much of our single pie of resources that it is damaging to us.
This is a moot point. Tax increases solve this issue
Most people on this list have taken their foot off the gas in a major way, and do more of what they want.
Elon is currently blowing tens of billions of dollars running Twitter into the ground, designs impractical cars because he thinks they look cool, committing light treason, and campaigning for a president who would be detrimental to his business interests.
While the Zuck is still involved at Meta, he also picked up a ton of other hobbies. A lot of them are objectively cool. He also seems to spend a lot of time with his wife and kids.
Bezos seems to spend most of his time having sex with his age appropriate mistress on his $500 million yacht.
I’ve heard there are people that do something similar to get on those reality shows about fat people’s lives or the weight loss competitions. I guess some think it’s easier to gain 100 more pounds and then get on the TV show to lose 400 pounds than it is just to lose 300 pounds themselves.
1, yes you are correct
2, you are wrong, because it isn’t about “I have 270 billion dollars “. It is closer to look at all the toys I have
… sure I put up satellites, but can we put astronauts to the ISS? Cool now can we get to the moon? Mars? … etc
No one has that much money.
